V. Meal powder two pound and a half, brimstone four ounces, and
seacoal six ounces.
VI. Meal powder three pound, charcoal five ounces, and saw dust one
ounce and a half.
For Sun Cases.
I. Meal powder eight pound and a half, saltpetre one pound two ounces,
steel dust two pound ten ounces and a half, and brimstone four ounces.
II. Meal powder three pound, saltpetre six ounces, and steel dust
seven ounces and a half.
For a Brilliant Fire.
Meal powder twelve pound, saltpetre one pound, brimstone four ounces,
and steel dust one pound and a half.
For Gerbes.
Meal powder six pound, and beat iron two pound one ounce and a half.
Chinese Fire.
Saltpetre twelve ouces, meal powder two pound, brimstone one pound two
ounces, and beat iron twelve ounces.
Charges for Tourbillons.
For four ounce Tourbillons.
Meal powder two pound four ounces, and charcoal four ounces and a
half.
For eight ounce Tourbillons.
Meal powder two pound, and charcoal four ounces and three quarters.
For large Tourbillons.
Meal powder two pound, saltpetre one pound, brimstone eight ounces,
and beat iron eight ounces.
N. B. Tourbillons may be made very large, and of different colour’d
fires, only you are to observe, that the larger they be, the weaker
must be the charge; and, on the contrary, the smaller they be, the
stronger must be their charge.
For Water Ballóóns.
I. Saltpetre four pound, brimstone two pound, meal powder two pound,
antimony four ounces, saw dust four ounces, and glass dust one ounce
and a quarter.
II. Saltpetre nine pound, brimstone three pound, meal powder six
pound, rosin twelve ounces, and antimony eight ounces.
For Water Squibs.